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Michelle Conlin

Michelle Conlin is a senior writer at BusinessWeek, where she covers the Working Life, a beat that includes the culture of work, social issues, work-life trends, and the labor market. Cover stories she has written include "The Economics Behind the Youth Vote," "Working…�And Poor," "Get Healthy—Or Else," "Religion in the Workplace," "The Wild New Workforce," "The New Gender Gap," "Unmarried America," "Is Your Office Killing You?" "Innovation Champions," and two of BusinessWeek's cover packages on philanthropy. She has also edited cover stories, including "The Finances of the Catholic Church," selected for Best Business Stories of 2003 and the "How This Kid Made $60 Million in 18 Months."

Conlin is a three-time finalist for the Deadline Club's Best Magazine Feature Reporting award. She was a finalist for the John Oakes Environmental Prize and the World Leadership Forum's Best Communicator Award. She also received the Media Access Disability Awareness Award given by the California Governor's Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons.

Conlin has appeared on NBC "Today Show," CBS "Early Show," ABC "Good Morning America," CNN, NPR "All Things Considered," NPR "Marketplace," CNBC "Kudlow & Cramer," Fox News, and MSNBC. She has also been a regular panelist on PBS "To the Contrary" and CNNfn "Business Unusual." She is the co-producer of the documentary "No Impact Man," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.

Conlin is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was the recipient of the Richard T. Baker prize for best print reporting and the Carlotta di Cagno and David di Cagno Hagen Prize for best investigative story on environmental protection.

Recent Articles by Michelle Conlin

March 10, 2010

Richard Florida: The U.S. Is Facing a 'Talent Shift'

Richard Florida, the author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class, is a preeminent thinker about human capital ...

March 10, 2010

Why MBAs are Going East

James Tsai is the sort of MBA corporate recruiters covet. He went to a good prep school, earned a degree with honors from Middlebury College, and made vice-president ...

January 20, 2010

Health Care: Human Resources Targets Your Family

The health nags in human resources have exhausted every possible idea to goad you into good health. At several large corporations, they've realized it's no use turning...

January 6, 2010

The Disposable Worker

On a recent Tuesday morning, single mom Tammy DePew Smith woke up in her tidy Florida townhouse in time to shuttle her oldest daughter, a high school freshman, to the ...

November 24, 2009

Look Who's Stalking Wal-Mart

At a Target store, the visual sizzle usually comes from the photos of all the fabulous-looking people wearing fabulous clothes and doing fabulous things. Of late, ...

November 4, 2009

The Return of the House Call

With health-care reform dominating Washington, policy analysts and benefits experts are looking at every possible cranny to unearth new, futuristic ways to slash ...

October 22, 2009

When the Laid-Off Are Better Off

As the Great Recession continues to devour jobs at an alarming rate, tales are legion about the millions of unemployed struggling to right their lives and recover ...

October 15, 2009

Blinded by Optimism—from 9/11 to Subprime

Bright-Sided:How the Relentless Promotion ofPositive Thinking Has Undermined AmericaBy Barbara EhrenreichMetropolitan Books; 235 pp; $23 In 2000, Barbara Ehrenreich ...

October 9, 2009

Test-Drives in the C-Suite

At one time or another all executives have experienced that special horror—the moment when they realize they've hired the wrong person. For Justin Moore, the ...

September 3, 2009

A No-Carbon Payoff

My author husband, Colin Beavan, decided in late 2006 that he wanted to stop writing about history and start writing about global warming. He was so excited about his ...